Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-04-02
Christ Solicitous for the Welfare Of the
Soul.
The savior's Suffering from Childhood to
Manhood.
The Evidence of His Love for Human
ity.

He arrived here yesterday from ST.
Louis, and is stopping over Sunday on
his way to Topeka, Kan. After ex-
pounding an appropriate chapter he
gave out the hymn beginning:
'Jesus lover OF my soul,
Let me to Thy bosom 1y."
His subjec. was
"CHEER FOR THE DIsHEARTENED,"
and his text, Psalm cxl ii, v. 4:
"No man cared for my soul.r
DIR. Talmage said:
David, the rubicund lad, had become
the battle-worn warrior. Three thous-
and armed men in pursuit of him, he
had hidden in the cave of Engedi,
near the coast of the Dead sea. Utterly
tagged out with the pursuit, as you
have often been worn out with the
trials of life, he sat down and cried
out: mo man cared for my soul"
If you should fall through a hatch
way, or slip from a scaffolding, or drop
through a skylight, there would be
hundreds of people who w~Uld come
around and pick up your body and
carry it to the home or to the hospital.
| saw a great crowd of people in the
street, and | asked: :'What is the mat
terp' and | found out that Il poor
laboring nan had fallen under sun
stroke, and all our eyes were filed
with tears at the thought of his dis
tracted wife and his desolated home.
We are all sympathetic with physical
disaster, but how little sympathy for
spiritual woes! There are men in this
house who have come to mid
life who have never yet been
once personally accosted about their
eternal welfare. A great sermon
dropped into an audience of hundreds
of thousands will do it's work; but if
this world is EVER to be brought to God
it will be through little sermons
preached by private Christians to an
audience of one. The sisters letter
postmarked at the village, the word
uttered in your hearing, half of smiles
and half of tears, the religious post
script to q business letter. the card left
at the door when you had some kind of
trouble, the anxious look of some one
across n church aisle while an earnest
sermon was being preached swung you
nto the
KINGDOM OF GoD.
But there are hundreds of people in
this house who will take the word that
David used in the past tense and en-
ploy it in the present tense and cry out:
mo mar cares for my soul" You
feel as you 90 out day by day in the
tug and jostle of life that it is every
man for himself. You can endure the
pressure of commercial affairs, and
would consider it almost impertinent
for any one 20 ask you whether you
are making or losing money. But
there have been times when you would
have drawn your check for thousands
of dollars if some one would only help
your soul out of its ~perplexities. There
are questions about your higher des-
that ache and distract and agon-
ize you at times. Let no one suppose
that because you are busy all day with
hardware, or dry goods, or groceries,
Or grain that your thoughts are no
onger than your yard-stick, and stop
the brass-headed nails of the store
When you speak once about
RELIGIOUS THINGS
you think five thousand times. They
call you a wording. You are not a
wording. OF course you are indus
.rious and keep busy, but you have had
your eyes opened to the realities of the
world. You are not a fool.
You know better than any one
IAN tell You. shat II few years
most will wind up your
engagements, and that you will
AXE residence in a distant sphere where
al your business adroitness would be
, superiority. You sometimes think till
your head aches about
GREAT RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS.
You 90 down the street with your eyes
liked on the pavement, Obvious of the
multitudes, your thoughts
gone on an eternal expedition. You
wonder il the Bible is true, how much
Of it is literal and how much is tigura-
i've, if Christ be God, if there is any
hing like retributior, if you are i'm
If a resurrection will ever take
place, what the occupation of Jour de-
kindred is, what you will be ten